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Fantasy Creates Reality
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Hello, my name's Ben Patrick Holden, I'm a writer living in the North of England. This is a channel about writing, fantasy literature, nature, and the soul of the world (whatever that is).
www.benpholden.com (go here for stories, some poetry, and a newsletter delivered by an imaginary raven)
fantasycreatesreality (trying to share a little magic here, in words and image)
Feel free to connect. I know you others are out there.
www.benpholden.com (go here for stories, some poetry, and a newsletter delivered by an imaginary raven)
fantasycreatesreality (trying to share a little magic here, in words and image)
Feel free to connect. I know you others are out there.
Stephan Harding - Gaia, Science, Alchemy and Soul
Dr Stephan Harding is an ecologist and author of two excellent books: Animate Earth and Gaia Alchemy. He worked with James Lovelock on Gaia Theory and has been teaching at Schumacher College on the MSC in Holistic Science programme since its inception in 1998.
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Terri Windling - Fantasy and Magic in a Fragmented World
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Terri Windling is an author, editor, artist, essayist. She has won nine World Fantasy Awards, the Mythopoeic Fantasy Award. In 2022 Terri was given the World Fantasy Lifetime Achievement award, and has been named a Guest of Honour for the 2024 Glasgow Worldcon. “If there is a single person at the nexus of fantasy literature, it is Terri Windling as editor, as writer, as painter, as muse.” - Jan...
Tom Cheetham - Poetics of Imagination
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Tom Cheetham is author of five books on creative imagination in psychology, religion, and the arts. He is a Fellow of the Temenos Academy in London and Adjunct Professor of Human Ecology at the College of the Atlantic. Links to Tom Cheetham's work: Website - www.tomcheetham.com Newsletter - www.tomcheetham.com/blog Podcast - www.tomcheetham.com/asvariouslyaspossible In this conversation we talk...
Rima Staines - Reaching for the Otherworld
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Rima Staines is a painter / multi-disciplinary artist whose work has its roots in the invisible and oft-forgotten soul worlds that lie just behind or just inside this one. In this conversation we talk about the longing for that otherworld, the difficulty of reaching for it within a technology/social media saturated world, and whole bunch of other stuff (see timestamps below). Rima's website: ww...
Andy Letcher - Attuning to Nature in the Age of the Machine
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Dr Andy Letcher is a Senior Lecturer at Schumacher College, where he is programme lead for the MA Engaged Ecology. He is the author of Shroom. A Cultural History of the Magic Mushroom, as well as many papers on subjects as diverse as fairies, eco-magick, psychedelic experience, mysticism and animism. In this conversation we cover some of those topics, and explore the difficulty of living a soul...
Noriko Sakura - Creativity, Death, Animism
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In this conversation I talk with Noriko Sakura about her life as an actor, her perspective on animism and the spirit world, and about our recent collaboration on a short story called Tokyo Yōkai, which you can listen to in full here: Tokyo Yōkai (pay what you feel): www.benpholden.com/stories/tokyoyokai Tokyo Yōkai (on Audible): www.audible.co.uk/pd/Tokyo-Yokai-Audiobook/B0BJMDTQ7L Noriko's web...
John Vervaeke - Tradition as a Living Force
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John and I also made a companion video which you can watch on his channel: ua-cam.com/video/Z9u2Yqc8O5k/v-deo.html John Vervaeke brings together cutting edge cognitive science with the ancient traditions of Neo-Platonism, Daoism, Zen, and others to illuminate the ways in which we can wake up to the wonder and beauty of existence, to avoid self-deception, to become wiser and live more meaningful...
Patricia McKillip and Alchemy: Towards a Language that Treats Nature as Sovereign
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This talk was given by Ben Patrick Holden at the Once and Future Fantasies conference in Glasgow, with readings from Terri Windling. The purpose of the talk was to honour the work of Patricia A. McKillip and explore her work through the lens of alchemy and alchemical language, what that means and why it is important. Patricia A. McKillip - www.patriciamckillip.com Ben Patrick Holden - www.benph...
A Tricky Puzzle - How to do social media with style and integrity?
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An improvised ramble on some difficult questions. No answers, just honest thoughts as they appear.
Soul Armour - How Reading Poetry Guards Against Soul Decay
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Soul Armour - How Reading Poetry Guards Against Soul Decay
How Writer's Block Can Become Something to Celebrate
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How Writer's Block Can Become Something to Celebrate
Paperclips and Productivity - Making a Bridge Between Flow and Discipline
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Paperclips and Productivity - Making a Bridge Between Flow and Discipline
A YouTube Channel about Soul, Nature, Fantasy and Writing
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A UA-cam Channel about Soul, Nature, Fantasy and Writing
Why should the voice of wisdom get so few views? It shows how deranged humanity is. Sad.
Thank you for these conversations.
Such a beautiful soul! Such a generous offering on Stephan's part. Thank you for doing this and for posting it! (Sean Kelly)
@@gaiapolis2012 thanks Sean!
Thanks so much for posting this. Such a gift.
Cause we are not born blank slates , we have a long history behind us and when I make art , that history comes apparent to me. It’s not another world … it’s just what’s inside of you.
@@lisalovelylpa well said. Makes me think: where are the boundaries to a person's soul? The penial gland like Descartes thought? The body? The house? The world? Beyond?
@@fantasycreatesreality2526 I don’t know .. I just paint !
What a delightful find. I feel like I have come home.
@@Clare-l4s I know the feeling
what is the original video?
For those of us who've become consumed by the desire to tell a story, and see that the tale needs to reflect mythology, in order to bring a bit of light back into the world this interview is priceless. We need strength and the educational aspects of fantasy more than ever.
I think about that quote from that Stars song all the time! 56:40
Vervaeke is a treasure.
Absolutely brilliant monologue my talented and beautiful cousin! Really fucking love this even more on my second watch. Gonna share that Abram quote.
This was so wonderful. What a special woman Terri is.
Thank you for this insightful conversation. Terri’s contribution to the world of fantasy literature is substantial, and it’s always so inspiring to hear her thoughts. Your questions opened up so many pathways for exploration and connection. Can’t wait to see more.
Loved this, Ben. Lots to think about as it all sifts down through me. Looking forward to your chat with Howard, whenever Trickster allows that to manifest :).
Fantastic interview!
It's always a pleasure to stop by this village 💛
Excellent!!!!!!Yeah, do it again guys, - Peace, Gus :)
Such a vital, nourishing conversation. Grounded AND awash with star-blood (to use Rima's term). Thank you both.
36:00 is it about trusting the space?
Great conversation, thank you both.
Loved this so much.
Wonderful! Thank you!!
so inspiring!
Excellent. Thank you both. I feel refreshed. It's the mark of a great conversation when you have to pause twice - once for a poem and once for a sketch :).
I love that Lunar. Intrigued to see the sketch and poem.
Great conversation. Thank you both.
Thank you Ben for this conversation with Rima an artist I have admired for many years - I resonate with all of your ideas and the longing for that soul world /otherworld which is within us and around us if we seek it. I was very interested in Rimas references to the Hedgespoken press and her ideas about the "hedge " as a place in between two worlds. She may not have heard that there is a history of Hedge Schools in Ireland. During the long history of Irelands colonisation by Britain, Penal laws were introduced in 18th century to ban people from education who were not Protestant- the Irish people’s response to this threat to their culture was to hold classes in hidden places- near hedges in some instances and became known as ‘Hedge schools’. Some were held near rivers, under overhanging rocks, in mud huts, in barns, in chapels, in the homes of people or, in some instances, in the teacher’s own house. A high standard of education was maintained - including Greek and Roman studies as well as Irish language literature etc. Anyway I didnt mean to go off on a tangent ! So many aspects of i your conversation touched on my ideas about the world we live in now - thank you for having this conversation and thank you Rima - I've been curious about you for years and it was lovely to hear you speak - so open and sharing - almost like being in the same room with you both . BTW - Rima - you should delve into Irish culture and our mythology - its full of otherworld references which I'm sure will resonate with you.
Super interesting Trudi. Thanks. Any sources for going deeper on the Irish history of Hedge Schools? I'm heading over there this Summer.
When she talked about the madder red I almost cried, I have the same colour palette as rima in all things, I can’t stand bright colours. I always thought it was an English thing privately, that mutedness, and have deep ancient ancestral history in England. So when they talked about it in terms of that mist I just about cried.
Oh my gosh do I feel at home in this conversation.
Yes, that!
Great stuff, enjoyed the craic 🥰
great interview! keep up the good work
Magical! Thanks!
at 39:29 I related to that due to being autistic. totally . Still listening, will carry on. at 40:00 you can almost hear the musicians playing.. amazing.
So wonderful to be able to watch this conversation, I've loved Rima's work for years. Thank you!
Thank you, what a beautiful beautiful conversation ❤️
Awesome. Thank you beautiful beings!
Beautiful conversation, thank you both.
Neoplatonism: the Ska of Philosophy
Spot on!
I love the end, feeling the fire and eros of ideas flowing freely. Very enlivening!
v interesting
I embrace honest science, but I categorically reject the uber-corrupt peer review journal industry. People need to differentiate between real science and the fraudulent papers which fill up today's 'scientific' journals. I also reject the career propagandists who are falsely regarded as representing 'science'.
Thank you, I really appreciated that. Moreover, the glimpses of nature that you filmed were very nice and made me quite nostalgic of times gone by. A nice poem I think is "Acquainted with the Night" by Robert Frost. Also, if you speak some french, there is a lot of great poetry to be found. Baudelaire for instance will forever hold a special place in my mind.
Thanks for this. Love Frost and Baudelaire! My French isn't too good though.
@@fantasycreatesreality2526 Interesting, so the translations are pretty good ? I am especially curious about the translator's choice for rendering the meters and perhaps even the rhymes, since the rules constraining them are so different in both our poetic traditions.
people would try to rob me straight u and show up DoA. they eat my nut and try to be like I am on some snake shit . That was just them giving me permission n making it a science. Ill stuff you in that computer plus murder people with the word for trying to kidnap me into some bullshit. The law is kidnapping. you got one part of it Various philosophers have made appeal to a notion of perspicuity, either as applied to whole languages or to particular expressions.Footnote37 Somewhat more concretely, one might think that intensional entities can be meaningfully said to be perspicuously denoted by particular expressions of a certain formal language (relative to a given variable-assignment and interpretation of its non-logical vocabulary). For now, let us suppose that the formal language in question is a variant of the language L described in Sect. 2.2. Then, with the help of a suitable concept of perspicuous denotation, applicable to the terms of this language, a new notion of involvement may be introduced as follows: (SInv) An intensional entity x structurally involves an entity y iff there exist a term t and a variable-assignment g that satisfy the following two conditions: (i) t perspicuously denotesg x. (ii) t contains, as an element of an argument list, a free occurrence of a term that denotesg y. On this basis, we may next say that an intensional entity is strictly qualitative iff it does not structurally involve anything; otherwise it may be said to be weakly impure. Let us apply this distinction to a few of the above examples. To begin with, suppose that the property of being identical with the identity relation can be perspicuously denoted by ‘λxI(x,I) ’. It then follows from (SInv) that this property structurally involves the identity relation and is hence weakly impure. Analogously for loving the color red, only that here the λ -expression in question would have to be a good deal more complicated-at least if it is correct to assume that, in a λ -expression that perspicuously denotes loving the color red, the loving relation and the color red will not be represented by mere constants or variables. The great question is now how to define (or analyze) the relevant concept of perspicuous denotation. It won’t be possible to address this in the present paper, but the remarks at the beginning of this subsection point to some desiderata that can serve as clues. Recall for instance that, under a certain (not implausibly) coarse-grained conception of attributes, every property P is denotable by the λ -expression ‘λx(P(x)∧I(P,P)) ’, in which the variable ‘P’ occurs as an element of an argument-list. Hence, if we are to avoid the unwelcome result that every property whatsoever structurally involves itself (and thereby fails to be strictly qualitative), then it had better not be the case that every property P is perspicuously denotable by ‘λx(P(x)∧I(P,P)) ’. If the concept of perspicuous denotation can be made precise, it may be tempting to use it also in an account of pure qualitativeness. In particular, one might suggest that an intensional entity x be called purely qualitative iff it is not the case that there exist some term t and variable-assignment g such that: (i) t perspicuously denotesg x, and (ii) t contains a free occurrence of a term that denotesg a particular.Footnote38 Suppose moreover that (as is the case with L ) the underlying language is such that, for any terms t1 and t2 , and any variable-assignment g: if t1 has a denotation relative to g, and t2 denotesg a particular, then any free occurrence of t2 in t1 is an element of an argument list. On this supposition it is straightforward to see that any intensional entity that fails to be purely qualitative, under the account just described, will structurally involve a particular, and will therefore fail to be strictly qualitative. By contraposition, any intensional entity that is strictly qualitative will then also be purely qualitative.
when you backwards you end up marketing the law and not abiding by it
YOu on that Hitler shit. If youre an exploitable mutable system you not gonna last. you gonna fold into Hitler. You cant steal my identity and then ban me. FBI already knows that. DAo NFT. coo op. Sciencelol. Maybe you shouldnt try to own the law so you can market the law point blank
YOu trying to rob God with science and socrates and say someone else is a bad guy out here and someone else is getting digested in the guts of moloch the AI metaverse tech oven beast . The beast already killed people as far as I m concerned because you couldnt fight it or itS bEast form. you didnt even control them you just thought you did. I own them and I been fair enough but thats whatever. YOu write story I could breath on the story bring it to real life in a movie but you wouldnt have total ownership because never did. God is abundantt for me. Blessings. and the whole thing. I dont see that out in the world or recieve that from out there. I only needed God. God had all the love. I didnt have anything comparable
I dont use glasses or eyes. I use the law and reality as a foundation. other way from backwards. I dont use my mind or brain. I just dont get that far lol.
you always project parasitic process backwards but there its meant to do that. Because its dark energy dark matter there. Im immune to that from the law which is life and spirit. Atleast im not talkin to a tree thinking its Hermes.
A Lot of people justworship my weapons. My weapons can take out whole militaries. already have Demiurge or nous The original Being initially emanates, or throws out, the nous, which is a perfect image of the One and the archetype of all existing things. It is simultaneously both being and thought, idea and ideal world. As image, the nous corresponds perfectly to the One, but as derivative, it is entirely different. What Plotinus understands by the nous is the highest sphere accessible to the human mind,[14] while also being pure intellect itself. Nous is the most critical component of idealism, Neoplatonism being a pure form of idealism.[note 3] The demiurge (the nous) is the energy, or ergon (does the work), which manifests or organises the material world into perceivability.
I could use one truth equal for all people just 1 leak. not even it. and you couldnt survive or maintain your platform basically. neo platonism or any of the backwards stuff. and I could do like 5 different leaks in a 15 second time bracket. you would pour blood into the maintenance at some point and the platform be more alive and vital than you in it. economical. little energy massive atomic change and effect. I never have to move or adapt to change the future thats all business to me.
When you do it backwards like that then you really really help me and like only me then I get surrounded by global elite wolves and dr fauci and thats a world you would have a mindbender in. I know I did. donald trump me talkin backwards. He clue drop more anyone else out there. like he does it on purpose and likes watching me struggle like he throwing fishies out here to me. but he knows. Im him . he an algorithm demiurge